JSP Tag Libraries

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You may use MOREnet-provided and third party JSP tag libraries (taglibs) for providing dynamic content with JSP. If you discover libraries that you would like to use, you can install them for use in your applications.

Installing and Using JSP Tag Libraries
An overview of taglibs, directions for installing them, and guidelines for using them in your web applications

Recommended Tag Libraries
MOREnet recommends that you install the following tag libraries. These documents point to the MOREnet-provided tag libraries or the sites where you can download third party tag libraries.
Application JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to to access information contained in the ServletContext for a web application. DateTime JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to perform date and time related functions. JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) The Standard tag library provides many of the features of individual tag libraries in one convenient tag library, such as general purpose actions, conditional actions, iterators, SQL actions, and XML actions. Mailer JSP Tag Library The Mailer custom tag library contains tags which can be used to create and send e-mail messages from a JSP. Page JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to to access all the information about the PageContext for a JSP page. Random JSP Tag Library The Random custom tag library contains tags for creating random string and number generators.	RegExp JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to perform Perl syntax regular expressions. Request JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to access all the information about the HTTP request for a JSP page, including information in the HTTP request for HTTP input parameters from a POST or GET, HTTP Headers, Cookies, request attributes, and session information related to this request. Response JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to set all the information for an HTTP response for a JSP page. This includes creating cookies and setting their values, setting HTTP headers, returning back an HTTP error, or sending an HTTP redirect. Scrape JSP Tag Library Use this tag library to retrieve information from other web pages and display the information in your JSP. Session JSP Tag Library The Session tag library provides tags for reading or modifying client HttpSession information. Tie information from a user to your server between multiple HTTP requests.